I used to follow people on Twitter for their expertise. Maybe politics; maybe mediaeval architecture; maybe virology. The experts got drowned out by Musk turning on the sewer taps. So I have been mis… (View Post)

.. I don't think the Conservatives will manage (1) as long as Farage is around. I think their real hope is he disappears. Europe is littered with the remains of Centre Right parties that have at… (View Post)

I don't understand this much and casually repeated argument: The good guys are to blame for the bad guys being bad. (View Post)

Comparisons fall down between Hamas and Trump because the essential situation Hamas is in relative to Israel is "The strong do what they can; the weak suffer what they must". There is no mo… (View Post)

Totally not an expert but a Google search tells me all marriages in the Netherlands were required to be civil ceremonies from 1795. You could also have a church ceremony but that had no legal status. (View Post)